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Recently, I had a chat with someone (a youth) and I said to her; “out of all your friends, you know the one that will give you the right counsel whenever you need one, you know the one that will give you wrong counsel and you know the one that will always tell you what you want to hear”.

The book of Amos 3:3 says “can two walk together, except they be agreed”. The type of people you are in agreement with or associating yourself with will determine if you will fulfill your destiny or if you will ruin it yourself.

There was a young promising music star in Nigeria, West Africa, who died around 2010. The boy was making a wave in the Nigerian Music industry but because of the wrong association that he was keeping, they will move from one club to another nightclub. It happened on this faithful day that he had an accident that claimed his life. Your associate will determine your achievement in life, the more reason why I am telling you today that your destiny is in your hand.

The friends of the paralytic man in the book of Mark 2vs1-12 helped his destiny. The Paralytic man understood that he had his own destiny at hand that was why he chose the right and like minds as friends. The man could not have received or reached his destiny (healing) if not for the help of his associates. The Bible says, the people heard about Jesus as he entered Capernaum, so many gathered that there was no room and space left, not even outside the door. The friends of this paralyzed man brought him to see Jesus but they could not gain entrance because the crowd was much. However, the unique thing about these people as it was recorded was that, they made an opening in the roof of the room where Jesus was and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man laid. The friends of this man were instrumental to the achievement of his purpose (destiny) which is healing.

You need to learn from the story of the man above and be intentional in choosing the right people as your friends. I have seen and heard about many promising stars whose destinies got truncated all because they chose to fly with the wrong association or the wrong set of people.

Another good example of a wrong associate that ruined destiny can be found in the book of 2 Samuel 13vs1-29. Amnon destiny was terminated because of the wrong piece of advice that Jonadab gave to him. Amnon was nursing a thought of an evil affair with her sister, Tamar but he did not have the boldness and audacity to carry it out but when his friend, Jonadab heard about it, he gave him a wrong advice on how to carry out the evil plan and that singular act terminated his glorious destiny.

You need to know that what you do and what you choose not to do will determine if you are going to fulfill destiny in the journey of life. Your destiny is in your hand, you can allow that destiny to live or terminate the destiny based on the people you are running with on the track of life. Samson chose to run with Delilah in the book of Judges 16vs4-31. Samson had the destiny to rescue the children of God from the hand of their oppressor but he chose to run with Delilah, that destiny was buried in Delilah’s lap. Samson could not totally achieve his destiny because he used his own hand to bury the destiny in the lap of a strange woman who was the wrong associate in his life.

Watch out for the type of people you are running your life with. Are they the type that will help you in achieving your destiny like the friends of the paralyzed man or the one that will truncate your destiny like the friend of Amnon? Your destiny is in your hand, choose the right associate (friends) and you will see yourself flying in place of destiny. Hallelujah.